Contact FYAE

Stephen O'Connell

stephen.oconnell@ucf.edu

Program: Phi Eta Sigma

• Degree(s): M.A. Educational Leadership: Higher Education/Student Personnel, B.A. Philosophy
• Favorite Candy: Skittles
• Favorite Quote: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." - The Great Gatsby

Darren Skinner

Assistant Director

darren.skinner@ucf.edu

Program: Welcome Expo

• Degree(s): M.A. Educational Leadership Concentration: Student Personal Administration, B.A. Elementary Education
• Favorite Candy: Fruit Pastilles and Mars Bars
• Favorite Quote: "Make it happen"

Danielle Aming

danielle.aming@ucf.edu

• Degree(s): M.A. Marriage and Family, University of Central Florida, B.A. Psychology, University of Central Florida
• Favorite Candy: Hershey's Cookies 'n' Creme
• Favorite Quote: "But nothing is ever perfect. Earth turns on a tilted axis just doing the best it can."

Dillon Burleson

dillon.burleson@ucf.edu

Courtney Demings

courtney.demings@ucf.edu

• Degree(s): M.A. Educational Leadership; Higher Education Policy Studies, B.A. English
• Favorite Candy: Reese's Peanut Butter Cups or Kit Kat Bars
• Favorite Quote: "If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."-The Late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Karen Dlhosh

karen.dlhosh@ucf.edu

• Degree(s): M.A. College Student Personnel, Bowling Green State University, B.A. Elementary Education, University of Florida
• Favorite Candy: Jelly Belly's
• Favorite Quote: "What is success? To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; That is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jodi Farbstein

jodi.farbstein@ucf.edu

• Degree(s): M.A. Educational Leadership: Student Personnel Administration in Higher Education, University of Central Florida, Bachelors in Elementary Education, University of Central Florida
• Favorite Candy: Kit Kat
• Favorite Quote: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi

Angela McDonnell

angela.mcdonnell@ucf.edu

• Degree(s): M.A. Educational Leadership Student Personnel/Higher Education, B.A. Psychology
• Favorite Candy: Kit Kat, Hershey with almonds & peanut butter cups
• Favorite Quote: "To the world you are one person, but to one person you are the world."

Brendali Melgoza

brendali@ucf.edu

Program: Academic Alert

• Degree(s): B.A. Interpersonal Communication
• Favorite Candy: Hot Tamales
• Favorite Quote: "Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it." - William Penn

Jenna Nobili

jenna.nobili@ucf.edu

Program: OSSM

• Degree(s): M.A. Educational Leadership; Student Personnel/Higher Education, B.S. Psychology
• Favorite Candy: Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
• Favorite Quote: "The difference between try and triumph is a little umph"

David Oglethorpe

david.oglethorpe@ucf.edu

• Degree(s): B.A. Strategic Communication, Ohio State University
• Current Education: M.A. Higher Education, Student Personnel
• Favorite Candy: Malteasers and Crunchie bars
• Favorite Quote: "A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding." - Bob Dylan

Emily Nanette Rank

emily.rank@ucf.edu

Program: Major Exploration Program

• Degree(s): M.A. Biblical Studies, B.A. Interpersonal Communication
• Favorite Candy: Chocolate
• Favorite Quote: "Trust in the LORD with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight." - Proverbs 3:5-6

Lisa Reynolds

lisa.reynolds@ucf.edu

• Degree(s): M.A. Educational Leadership; Higher Education/Student Personnel, University of Central Florida, B.S. Geology, University of South Florida
• Favorite Candy: Dark chocolate, York Peppermint Patties
• Favorite Quote: "The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books." - Theodore Roosevelt

Gregory Saunders

gregory.saunders@ucf.edu

Jesse Sunski

jesse.sunski@ucf.edu

Program: LEARN

• Degree(s): M.A. Educational Leadership; Higher Education/Student Personnel Administration, B.A. Radio-Television
• Favorite Candy: Kit Kat
• Favorite Quote: "two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- // I took the one less traveled by, // And that has made all the difference" - Robert Frost

Milissa Bennett-Persad

Office Manager

milissa.bennett-persad@ucf.edu

Amanda Burke

Student Programs Coordinator

amanda.burke@ucf.edu

Program: Academic Alert

• Current Education: B.A. Interpersonal and Organizational Communication
• Favorite Candy: Reeses
• Favorite Quote: "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." - Helen Keller

Daniela Concha-Alecchi

Student Assistant

fy@ucf.edu

• Current Education: B.S. Biomedical Sciences
• Favorite Candy: Snickers
• Favorite Quote: "We always overestimate our worries & underestimate our potential."

Devon Fagan

Graduate Assistant

Devon.Fagan@ucf.edu

Program: OSSM

• Favorite Candy: Peanut M&Ms
• Favorite Quote: "You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try." - Dolly Parton

Brian Gil

Student Assistant

fy@ucf.edu

James Hurst

Event Manager

james.hurst@ucf.edu

Program: Welcome Expo

Jessica Kessler

Student Assistant

fy@ucf.edu

• Current Education: B.S. Health Sciences: Pre-Clinical
• Favorite Candy: Reeses
• Favorite Quote: "Live well, love much, laugh often."

Dalena Luis

Access Programs Graduate Assistant

fy@ucf.edu

Catherine Mobley

CAP Program Assistant

catherine.mobley@ucf.edu

Savanna Robinson

Student Assistant

fy@ucf.edu

• Current Education: B.S. Biology
• Favorite Candy: Peanut M&M's
• Favorite Quote: "If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney

Wahkeem Whyte

Student Assistant

fy@ucf.edu

• Current Education: B.S. Interdisciplinary Studies, Health and Education Track
• Favorite Candy: Snickers and Reeses
• Favorite Quote: "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measures." - Marianne Williamson

Kathryn Wood

Student Assistant

fy@ucf.edu

• Current Education: B.A. History
• Favorite Candy: M&M's
• Favorite Quote: "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." - Herm Albright

Jonathan Lee

Summer Intern

fy@ucf.edu

• Degree(s): B.S Marketing, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
• Current Education(s): M.A. Educational Leadership, Miami University
• Favorite Candy: Snickers
• Favorite Quote: "We may not defeat this enemy. But we will meet them in battle nonetheless"

Kamla Billings

fy@ucf.edu

Krystal Christopher

fy@ucf.edu

• Degree(s): B.A. Sociology and B.S. Psychology, University of Central Florida
• Current Education(s): M.A. Marriage and Family Therapy
• Favorite Candy: Kit Kat and Mike and Ikes
• Favorite Quote: "Be the change you want to see!"

Giovanni Correale

fy@ucf.edu

• Degree(s): B.A. Psychology, Florida International University
• Current Education(s): M.A. Educational Leadership; Student Personnel/Higher Education
• Favorite Candy: Twix
• Favorite Quote: "Wear suncreen!"

Drew Fedorka

fy@ucf.edu

• Degree(s): B.A. History, University of Central Florida
• Current Education(s): M.A. History
• Favorite Candy: Mike and Ikes

Lesley MacDonald

fy@ucf.edu

• Degree(s): B.S. Psychology, University of Central Florida
• Current Education: Ed.S School Psychology
• Favorite Candy: Reese's
• Favorite Quote: "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -Unknown

Amanda Perez

fy@ucf.edu

• Degree(s): Family and Child Sciences and Sociology, Florida State University
• Current Education(s): M.A. Marriage and Family Therapy
• Favorite Candy: Junior Mints
• Favorite Quote: "Just do your lousy best!"

Margaux Ring

fy@ucf.edu

• Degree(s): B.A. Interpersonal/Organizational Communication, University of Central Florida
• Current Education(s): M.A. Educational Leadership; Student Personnel/Higher Education
• Favorite Candy: Chocolate
• Favorite Quote: "Dream on, for often dreams come true. The power to make them lies in you!" -Dr. Charles Millican

Belkis Sanchez

fy@ucf.edu

• Degree(s): B.A. Criminal Justice, University of Central Florida
• Current Education(s): M.A. Educational Leadership; Student Personnel/Higher Education
• Favorite Candy: Sour Patch Kids
• Favorite Quote: "A strong woman is like a teabag; you never know how strong she is until she is in hot water" - Eleanor Roosevelt

Maeleesa Strong

fy@ucf.edu

• Degree(s): B.S. Early Childhood Development, University of Central Florida
• Current Education(s): M.A. Educational Leadership; Student Personnel/Higher Education
• Favorite Candy: Skittles
• Favorite Quote: "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"

Jacqueline Villasin

fy@ucf.edu

• Degree(s): B.S. Psychology, University of Central Florida
• Current Education(s): M.A. Mental Health Counseling
• Favorite Candy: 100 Grand
• Favorite Quote: "Que Sera Sera!"